JAPANESE COUPLES DEFENSE TO CHARGES OF ABDUCTING 13-YEAR-OLD RUNAWAY AND FILMING HER IN OBSCENE ACT: “WE DID NOT INTEND TO KIDNAP THAT GIRL!”

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/ A suburban Tokyo couple have been arrested after they abducted a 13-year-old runaway and showed her pornographic movies, police said.

Arrested for abduction with intent to profit, indecent assault and illegal confinement were Yuji Kuwashima, 39, and his wife, Namiko, 30, from the Tokyo suburb of Hachioji.

The Kuwashimas admit to being with the girl, but deny some of the allegations against them.

"We did not intend to kidnap her," one of the Kuwashimas told the police.

Police said the Kuwashimas came in touch with the girl from Gifu Prefecture when she posted a message on an Internet site saying that she wanted to run away from home.

On Sept. 23, the Kuwashimas met the girl in Gifu, telling her that they would buy her some clothes and took her into their car, police said, adding that they kept the girl in the vehicle as they drove around for about one hour.

Police said that the couple filmed her as she was forced to do obscene act.

Later that same day, the couple released the girl in a Hachioji parking lot and she raced to a nearby police box to seek help, police said. (Mainichi)